When former President Hosni Mubarak was acquitted of corruption in January 2015, analysts had already predicted it as a foregone conclusion. For many it was evidence that the deep state existed. The deep state is a phrase that would regularly become associated with Egyptian politics after the 2011 revolution. Sadat, …

Two weeks before jailed former presidential candidate Abdel Moneim Abouel Fotouh reached the two-year legal limit for remand detention, prosecutors charged him in a new case, effectively resetting the detention clock and allowing authorities to keep him locked up without trial for an additional 24 months.

The Supreme State Security Prosecution ordered the imprisonment of former Islamist presidential candidate Abdel Moneim Aboul Fotouh for 15 days pending investigations on charges of assuming leadership in a terrorist group.

The Cairo Criminal Court on Saturday referred the documents of Hesham Ali Ashmawy, one of Egypt’s most notorious militants, and 36 other defendants in the “Ansar Beit al-Maqdes” case to Grand Mufti Shawky Allam for approval before they are sentenced to death.

The Tax Evasion Misdemeanors court on Tuesday sentenced actor Amr Waked to six months in prison with a bail of LE10,000 on charges of tax evasion.

An Egyptian court upheld a ruling on Sunday banning teaching staff at Cairo University from wearing a face veil while holding lectures.

A Cairo criminal court sentenced a former honorary Italian consul to 15 years in jail in absentia on Tuesday for smuggling antiquities out of the country, a judicial source said.

Egypt’s administrative court has ordered the country’s interior minister to reveal the location of a prominent Arab Spring activist and former lawmaker, local media has reported.

The House of Representatives’ Legislative and Constitutional Affairs Committee on Sunday approved the government’s draft law to cancel the conditional half-term release in mass gatherings, drugs, money laundering and terrorism cases.

The government has granted the public prosecutor greater powers to freeze the assets, funds and property of individuals and organizations included on terrorist lists, even if those resources were never used for so-called terrorist activity. The move was criticized by a judicial official at the Court of Appeals as providing …